Herman "Hymie" Rockman is a huckster. In Tamaqua, on weekends, he sells cabbages, apples and potatoes that he grows on his 100-acre New Ringgold farm.
Farming is a difficult life for a man in the prim...
The 32 students and staff at Behavioral Health Associates, Inc. at the Packer Ridge Academy in Packerton have a better chance of surviving a heart attack, thanks to the donation of an automated extern...
Fifty-three Panther Valley JROTC cadets took an hour long trip to Tower City for the 36th annual flag retirement ceremony held by American Legion Post 468. This event is held every year to retire flag...
Nicki is a 2 year old fawn, a sweet, small male greyhound ready for his forever home. For further information on adopting Nicki or other adoptable greyhounds, visit
www.poconogreyhound.com or cal...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike reports that motorists traveling northbound and southbound on the PA Turnpike's Northeastern Extension (I-476) will be stopped a maximum of 20 minutes at noon Nov. 16, 17, 18...
Duck hunting reopens Monday and remains open through Friday, Jan. 15, in the South Zone. Canada goose hunting opens Monday and remains open through Saturday, Nov. 28, and then reopens Friday, Dec. 11,...
St. John's United Church of Christ, 15 Second St., Slatington, is offering a free Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 26. Dinner will be served from noon to 2 p.m.; doors open at 11:30 a.m.
All are ...
Lehighton Senior Center went all out to celebrate the center's 35th anniversary.
The Lehighton center was the second center to open in Carbon County in 1974.Members of the Lehighton Senior Center plan...
Ask me my political affiliation and I will say, "Independent," since that is how I'm registered. Ask me my political philosophy and I will coin a term.
"Practical Libertarian."While I believe the best...
A Palmerton man admitted to an indecent assault count involving a teenage boy.
He was one of several defendants in pending criminal cases to enter a guilty plea before Carbon County Judge David W. Add...